Intro to Poetry (Working Together by David Whyte)

1. The title is significant because it tells the central theme of the poem; it's about the world shaping us and us shaping the world, how working together can produce miraculous things. Working together produces something better than what a single individual can do alone. 
2. The tone of the poem is optimistic, "working together in common cause, to produce the miraculous."
3. My mood when I read this is also optimistic and hopeful. Hopeful for a future in which there is more camaraderie that can also create something better for society. 
4. There is not an obvious shift. But the first line is a bit aloof, stating that we shape the world and vice versa. Then it goes on to become more optimistic, how we can work as a team, how doing so led to incredible things and inventions. 
5. The theme of the poem is that everyone working together can create something bigger than working alone; have faith even in what we can't see because they still shape us into the people we are.